A bidding process is under way for the wellhead platform that is part of the Ande Ande Lumut heavy oil project in Indonesia, writes Russell Searancke.
The 48-slot wellhead platform will sport topsides weighing between 2500 and 2800 tonnes, and be supported by a jacket weighing up to 2000 tonnes.
Sources said there are up to nine competing groups for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the platform, which will be connected to a leased floating production, storage and offloadling vessel via a 45-metre bridge link.
Project operator Santos is understood to have recently issued the invitation to bid for the platform.
Sources said there are many hungry Indonesian contractors keen to be involved in the Ande Ande Lumut project.
Local company Synergy previously did the front-end engineering and design work for the platform.
There is a separate bidding exercise under way for the FPSO, which will be able to process 40,000 barrels per day of oil.
Initial production is expected to be 25,000 bpd.
The FPSO storage capacity is earmarked at about 570,000 barrels of oil.
The vessel will need to handle up to 350,000 bpd of water and have a 22 megawatt power generation system for the numerous electrical submersible pumps required to handle the field’s large amounts of water.
The front-end engineering and design for the FPSO was completed by KBR and local partner Singgar Mulia.
Sources said significant doubts remain about the economic viability of the project, and that its chances of reaching a final investment decision based on current oil prices are low.
The initial phase of Ande Ande Lumut involves drilling 33 longer-reach horizontal wells into the K sand to achieve total recovery of 101 million barrels of oil.
The joint venture partners Santos and AWE are considering drilling an appraisal well in the underlying G-Sand reservoir, estimated to contain an additional 36 million barrels of oil, in the first half of 2016.
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